The WildCard Workout
Post on: Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 at 3:00 amCategory: Fitness, Gym | Tags: Endurance Training, Strength & Conditioning, Trainer
It feels great getting back into a workout routine again, after being away. I don’t mind being a gym rat 
The days I see my personal trainer I normally arrive at least 15 minutes early not only so I can have a longer warm up either on the treadmill or the stair climber but it’s not cutting into the workout which I’m paying for.
The other day I got there a few minutes early like I normally do, and I noticed my trainer shuffling a deck of playing cards at the personal trainer desk area. At first I’m thinking he might have some free time or something been clients. So after my 15 minute warm up on the stair climber. He met up with me afterwards to mention what we were gonna do for that day.
As he explains instead of doing four sets of 15 reps per exercise, I’d be doing whatever number he pulled from the deck of cards so anything from 1-5 was 11-15 reps and 6 to King was 6 to 12 reps though if he pulled a Jack of spades it was the wildcard and it meant I had to do 20 minutes on the stair climber with the increase the speed by 5. 
It seems like its gonna be a simple workout, you think as it’s just four things with so many reps etc.. But the non-stop movement between doing crushes and hamstring curls with the exercise ball, step ups on a plyo box and a few chest presses on the machine. I felt like I had the wind kicked out of me, I mean I barely had time to breathe before I was back doing step ups again or doing crunches against the wall. But thankfully I only had to do the “wildcard” once and it was near the end of the session. But at the time I was back on the stair climber I was cursing at myself because I warmed up on the stair climber. Do have to say he kicked my butt hard!
But what doesn’t make you weaker makes you stronger!
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